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Who not to vote for (Republican candidates only)

Rule #1: Don’t vote for someone who has never held a single elected or appointed position in government.

So, rule #1 means forget Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina and Donald Trump.

Ok. I’m in favor of fresh blood, but not that fresh. Donald Trump can sell. He’s been selling his whole life. If you put up a luxury condominium, you have to sell it for top price- and this is what Trump has doing for the last about 30 years. These days, he pushes Trump brand.

All I hear from Trump is marketing. Great marketing and maybe it’s enough for domestic consumption. He isn’t capable of building international cooperative agreements. He’s thinks way too much in terms of power relationships as dividing the world into friends and enemies. This was the great Bush/Cheney failure.

Carly Fiorina was CEO from 1999 to 2005. The board fired her when HP stock plummeted after the takeover of Compaq. Arianna Packard wrote:

“I know a little bit about Carly Fiorina, having watched her almost destroy the company my grandfather founded,” she wrote.